'Hopey-feely' will win the day for the EU

Cold-blooded analysis of the dangers of leaving the EU will win the day. Emily Hohler reports.

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German chancellor Angela Merkel's not keen to let Britain go

PrimeMinister David Cameron ended his whistle-stop European tour last Friday with a "clear message from fellow leaders", says the Financial Times."We will help you win a referendum on Britain's membership for the EU but not at any price." All four leaders he met with Dutch premier Mark Rutte, French president Franois Hollande, Polish prime minister Ewa Kopacz, and German chancellor Angela Merkel agreed that "full-on treaty change" would be problematic, although Merkel said it could not be "completely ruled out" if Cameron's wishes cannot be achieved through changes to secondary legislation.

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Emily Hohler
Politics editor

Emily has worked as a journalist for more than thirty years and was formerly Assistant Editor of MoneyWeek, which she helped launch in 2000. Prior to this, she was Deputy Features Editor of The Times and a Commissioning Editor for The Independent on Sunday and The Daily Telegraph. She has written for most of the national newspapers including The Times, the Daily and Sunday Telegraph, The Evening Standard and The Daily Mail, She interviewed celebrities weekly for The Sunday Telegraph and wrote a regular column for The Evening Standard. As Political Editor of MoneyWeek, Emily has covered subjects from Brexit to the Gaza war.

Aside from her writing, Emily trained as Nutritional Therapist following her son's diagnosis with Type 1 diabetes in 2011 and now works as a practitioner for Nature Doc, offering one-to-one consultations and running workshops in Oxfordshire.